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Celebration of Seeing Change

How do we see change?

Image: L Fedorovitch

Year 1 students have been exploring change. We have designed, developed and planted our own garden. We have researched and prepared important information regarding our chosen flowers and we have transformed the school courtyard into a flowering fantasy.

This website is a sample of our studies and window to our success, join our journey for a tour of discovery seeing change.

Facts

Please click on the picture of the plant to learn about that type of plant.

Please Note: This is an example and on a live website the facts would be hyperlinked to the picture and the images would be arranged as a garden.

The Sunflower

The scientific name for sunflower is Helianthus.

Helia for sun and Anthus for flower.

Sunflowers are many different shades of yellow.

A sunflower can grow up to 1.5m tall.

The sunflower is one of the fastest growing plantsand takes from 90 to 100 days to grow from planting to maturity.

The flower head moves throughout the day as it tracks the sun.

Sunflowers like to grow in well drained soil with a lot of sunlight and need watering regularly.

People eat sunflower seeds.

 Sunflowers attract birds to your garden.

Please Note: This is an example and in a live website there could be pictures of students or names of students and the journal entries can be hyperlinked to the picture or name.

Journal Entries

Step 1

To start my garden I will need, sunflower seeds, soil, water, garden gloves and a garden spade.

Step 2

I will need to find a place in the garden where the sun shines all the time.

Step 3

I will need to make some holes in the soil about 1cm deep and 14cm apart.

Step 4

I need to place the seeds in the hole and cover with the soil. I now need to water the soil.

Step 5

After a few days my sunflower plants started to grow.

Step 6

My sunflower plants are now 4cm tall.

Garden Tea Party

The culminating project for this unit includes a Celebration of Seeing Change – Garden Tea Party. This includes the preparation and planning of the event with invitations to School administration, Parents and Community partners to be held in the location of the newly created courtyard garden.

Date: 01/09/06

Time: 10:30am

Contact person:

Year 1 Teacher

Garden Tea Party in the School Courtyard

Please note: This is an example, and in a live website images could be added from the Garden Tea Party

Photo Gallery

This is the digital folio of the seeing change unit.

Sunflower seed

Image: L Fedorovitch / Sunflower shoot

Image: L Fedorovitch / Sunflower bud

Image: L Fedorovitch
Water

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/ Soil preparation

Image: L Fedorovitch

Mature Sunflower

Image: Natoli / Sunflowers in the sun.

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/ Courtyard Garden

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